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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1888

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Tenant Farming in the United States

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 11 August 1888 · page 2

IT is common to speak of the farmers of the United States as the owners of the land they cultivate, and a large proportion of them are in the position indicated. Of late, however,…

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Important to Pastoral Lessees. Power of Minister to Adjust Rentals. Alison v. Burns

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 25 August 1888 · page 3

THIS action was brought in the Supreme Court to test the power of the Minister for Lands to fix rents at a higher rate than the appraisement of the local land board. It was argued before the Chief…

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The Steam Farmer

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 1 September 1888 · page 6

THERE is on view in the Canadian court of the Glasgow International Exhibition an interesting model of a novel agricultural machine, which is known as Romaine's steam…

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Woolgoolga and Farming

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 1 September 1888 · page 8

SIR.—Your issue of the 11th instant contains a letter signed " Traveller," in which certain anomalous facts concerning Woolgoolga are mentioned. "Traveller" (doubtless through lack of…

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Protection versus Improved Farming

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 1 September 1888 · page 6

AT a meeting of the Dapto Agricultural Society, a discussion took place on the following proposition: "That a protective duty on grain and other farm produce would not promote a good husbandry,…

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Victorian Farmers' Conference

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 8 September 1888 · page 3

AT a conference of 300 delegates from the various branches of the Farmers' Protection Association, last week, to discuss matters affecting the agricultural and pastoral interests, it was resolved to…

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Victorian Farm Produce

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 11 September 1888 · page 2

IN speaking to the want of confidence motion in the Victorian Assembly, Mr. WALKES stated that more than £1,000,000 worth of farm produce was annually exported to New South Wales, and the…

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New Light Railway Trucks. Important to Farmers

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 22 September 1888 · page 3

A VERY important experiment in the interest of the farming and inland community generally is about to be made on the railways. The Minister for Works has decided, at the request of Mr. Haynes,…

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Model Dairy. (From our Special Representative.) Melbourne, 12Th September

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 22 September 1888 · page 3

A LECTURE in connection with the Model Dairy was given on Saturday evening. Owing to the noise of machinery and traffic through the place, little of it could be heard. It dealt with the…

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Butter Production

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 29 September 1888 · page 3

THE high local prices for butter ruling this season should direct the attention of farmers and dairymen to the production of the article, to meet at least home requirements. 1s 4d to 1s 6d per Ib. is…

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A Gigantic Pastoral Association

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 29 September 1888 · page 8

THE prospectas is issued of the Pastoral Finance, Trust and Agency Company of Australasia, limited, with a nominal capital of £2,000,000, to be subscribed in £1 shares. The provisional directory…

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On the Farms

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 6 October 1888 · page 3

SINCE the rain our farmers have been particularly busy planting the early maize, for which the land waa prepared. Daring the past fortnight a very large area has been planted, and the present sowing will…

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Dairy Schools

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 9 October 1888 · page 4

THE Daily News says we have several times called attention to the different kinds of agricultural schools and schools of forestry which have been recently established in…

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Intelligent and Mixed Farming

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 20 October 1888 · page 6

THE common idea that "anyone can be a farmer" is just as far away from the truth as if it were claimed that anyone could be an engineer; for to be either requires not only some preliminary…

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C. and N. C. Farmers' Association

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 20 October 1888 · page 8

THE Manager's report submitted at the monthly meeting of the Board on Tuesday last, showed that the consignments of maize for September amounted to 6530 bags. Notwithstanding the heavy glut,…

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Wheat-growing

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 27 October 1888 · page 3

SOME very fair samples of wheat in ear were exhibited at the Flower Show by Mr. A. Eggins, of Southgate. They were grown on Borba, a hill at Southgate, and the Wheat grew on what is…

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The Pastoral and Agricultural Outlook

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 27 October 1888 · page 3

THE reports from some eighty-four country districts which are published in the Herald form the basis of a very fair general idea as to the condition of agricultural and pastoral affairs in New South…

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The Wheat Crop of 1888

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 3 November 1888 · page 3

THE marketable crop in the United Kingdom is not likely to exceed 6,500,000 quarters, as compared with 9,528,000 quarters last year. Allowing for a consumption of five and a…

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Insect Pests of Garden and Farm

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 10 November 1888 · page 3

IN a Technical College lecture by Mr. Angus Mackay, F.C.S., who brought forward the very seasonable subject of "Insect pests of the farm and garden, he said it was…

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Substitutes for Butter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 17 November 1888 · page 2

MANY of the abominable compounds which come under the head of margarine can be made for next to nothing a pound, and the practice of selling such mixtures as genuine…

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